SACRAMENTO, Ky. - "We opened this up not knowing what it would do," Judy Cobb said of Cobb's Recycling in Sacramento, Ky. The family-owned business headed up by her husband, Dewayne, and her has been going strong for two years. Their daughter, Aimee Dukes, and son-in-law, Nathan Dukes, also work at the business. Jamie Cobb, their son, helps out on weekends when he isn't working at his state job.

"It's the best thing that ever happened in Sacramento," a customer said in the din of the office where a lot of the wheeling and dealing takes place. Outside, the noises change to the crunching, grating and crashing of metal on metal.

"We recycle everything but cardboard and plastic," Dewayne Cobb said. "We do clothes, shoes, purses, hats and stuff. We recycle them. They go to third-world countries. Aimee does silver and gold," he said of his daughter's role. "And then we buy cars, copper, any shreddable metals or hard iron. Anything like that we buy."

"People bring in stuff. They'll come on bicycles. A guy and woman had about four kids," Judy Cobb said. "They come in a car, but they had a rope tied to it and he was pulling the wife on a lawn mower."

"We get all kinds of stuff in cars, hanging out of cars or strapped on top of them," Aimee Dukes said.

"One woman's vehicle didn't have a back seat and it had a hot water heater in the back of it," Judy said. "You wouldn't believe. Just anything and everything that people can find."